Quaro
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Two of the RPS guys have a great boardgaming video podcast:
So…unless a guy is writing or publishing in the gaming industry, he’s got nothing to contribute to a podcast?
Yeah no.
Also another “yeah no” on panning a podcast without listening to it.
I listened to the Game Business podcast and found it a bit milquetoast. I love Gary on the Tested podcast, but it seems here like he and his co-host were not really expressing much of a strong opinion on anything. Nor was I learning anything new. The topics were a lot of ones that we’ve seen run into the ground on podcasts and messageboards all over: the used games biz, digital distribution, DRM, that kind of stuff.
Still, a sample of one is bad statistics, so I’ll listen to the next few to see how it goes. Hopefully we’ll get some stuff that’s more educational and/or entertaining.
Well, that’s why I bumped the thread, to ask. I mean, some people here will pan a cast without having listened to it in years; nothing wrong with asking. But I think I was right to a large extent. Without involvement in the game industry, you’re going to speak much more in generalities.
Thanks to Douglas for the link. I’ve listened, and it was fairly superficial treatment of the topics they covered. I hope they go more in-depth, and add guests. I really liked hearing Jeremy Williams’s music again, though :). It’s also good to see a cast take this perspective again, as GT left a big hole when it stopped.
There another way to listen to this besides through itunes?
edit: oop clicked too soon. Found it here http://games.ign.com/articles/119/1196661p1.html
Well, it has precisely dick to do with games, but the cast is all involved with them in some way (though, again, Max has never really been my cup of tea on the Destructoid video show, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens with the censors removed), and folks have asked, so…
Comedy Button Pushed
If you’re on the Geekbox RSS feed you should have gotten the first episode, just like you’ve gotten every episode of The Comics Conspiracy. Not sure what happened with respect to iTunes, as I am quite obviously far too cool for that.
The Gamespy Debriefings were an immature, childish, guilty pleasure for me. I’m glad to see that I can continue to laugh in shame with The Comedy Button. :)
Hey does anyone know whether the Eurogamer.net podcast is coming back? iTunes has suddenly been complaining about its URL, and this is the second week running with no show.
I don’t even recall the last Eurogamer podcast. Wasn’t it always very infrequent and irregular? Also not very interesting, judging by the two early episodes I checked out.
_Poe
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They’ve got a new website which seems to have broken their itunes feed. There was no episode last week, but there is one this week which you can get manually from their site.
Its as shambolically entertaining as it normally is.
JM1
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This week on Jumping the Shark, we have no idea what emergent gameplay is! (It certainly isn’t scouting an area in Bioshock 2 and witnessing an easter egg of two splicers dancing with each other)
A couple of duff episodes in a row. It feels like I’m picking on them but I do think it’s a great series and I listen to very few gaming podcasts now (this and 3MA) so the dodgy ones stand out.
Wolff
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Hey qt3 podmind - has anyone heard a decent a discussion on Dark Souls in their perusal of web audio? Unfortunately most of the ones I’ve heard involve one person getting past the first boss and the entire crew basing the discussion on the first five minutes of play.
For at least two weeks there’s been a fair bit of discussion on the Giant Bombcast. I believe it’s the 10-4 and the 10-11 episodes.
Otagan
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I like the JTS crew (well, most of them) just as much as everyone else, but they do occasionally drop the ball on their topic segments completely. I am reminded once more of the “should you consider price in reviews” episode and the extraordinarily labored 15 minute attempt to compare the pricing of 3D movies to the pricing of video games. At least Bill finally jumped in to put a stop to that, but even then he should have done so 10 minutes earlier.
Now I’m a little nervous about getting caught up, as I also tend to notice the weak episodes of any podcast I listen to, but I have a larger pool to select from than you do. I’ll have to keep this in mind when I get to the most recent couple of episodes.
There are at least two episodes that address that game to some detail in Roleplayer’s Realm, which is basically Active Time Babble (host Kat Bailey, actually a surprisingly large number of 1Up guests).
There’s one episode of the Joystiq podcast in which Griffin and everybody else furiously masturbate one another over how awesome they think the game is. I don’t remember them going into tremendous depth, though.
The Game Informer podcast had an episode that talked about it quite a bit and Phil Kollar has put out at least one GI podcast dedicated solely to Dark Souls discussion. They’re both available in the regular GI podcast feed.
I’m most of the way through this week’s Bombcast. I was intrigued by Jeff’s vague allusions to Battlefield 3 review shenanigans. He mentioned that there are a lot of stories going around about shady stuff going with regard to who got review copies and when. At least that’s what I think he meant. He was pretty vague. Anyone know and have links to stories about this?
I loved how he addressed that all these 9/10 and 10/10 reviews lamented a solid single player or co-op experience, basically saying 2/3rds of the content you pay for isn’t worth much yet still scord it so high.
Why do they bother with single player anymore with games like this? I’m not paying $60 for a 4 hour (short AND boring) campaign, and I’m not into multi-player, so just focus on the multi-player. Sheesh.
I’ve seen a thing or two about that, but nothing that actually says what’s really going on.
Joystiq got theirs PC review code, but Eurogamer was told there wasn’t any. The BF3 discs themselves didn’t arrive until the last possible second.
I didn’t see anything on 1up about their review being peculiar, one way or the other. I try not to go to IGN or Kotaku if I can help it, so I don’t know about theirs.
I just did the same after listening to him try to talk over everyone else for 20 min about how “central” the Catwoman DLC is to Arkham City, even while openly admitting he hasn’t played the game.
I liked listening to that podcast mostly to hear Jeff Cannata, but there’s really no point when the guy can hardly get a word in edgewise.
